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so there's a metaphor of america, that the boat, the pequod, represents for melville and i think for the average reader. that certainly there's a lot that's very rich there. and as someone who grew up in, i grew up on an island where all the tainos had been annihilated. >> all the? >> the tainos, the indigenous folks of the islands, the indigenous folks of hispaniola. and for me, you know, to come to united states and sort of see that line and see that sort of historical reference, regardless how accurate it was, it struck a deep cord in me. it struck a very, very deep cord in me. >> and you said melville was doing that to try and render the real american character? >> when you read that book, you start sort of encountering all the characters on the pequod. you start encountering tashtego. you start encountering daggoo. you have queequeg. and later on it is revealedthat fedallah has been hiding down below, these harpooners. and there's chinese folks, there's african-americans, there's folks from you know, persia, there's folks from the pacific. you suddenly begin to realize what you'
so there's a metaphor of america, that the boat, the pequod, represents for melville and i think for the average reader. that certainly there's a lot that's very rich there. and as someone who grew up in, i grew up on an island where all the tainos had been annihilated. >> all the? >> the tainos, the indigenous folks of the islands, the indigenous folks of hispaniola. and for me, you know, to come to united states and sort of see that line and see that sort of historical reference,...
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is not just me twisting shakespeare to suit my purposes in a marginal comment of a soliloquy herman melville wrote here is forcibly shown have led. to cv essayistic qualities. to revert, i don't know about you but while i still enjoy the essayistic part of the of miracle like this i was becoming increasingly impatient with the novelistic parts which unfairly i remember a benny hill with doctors and chasing after nurses so i was glad to get those be trade and s.a. of seven parts that they gave me all the stuff that i wanted without the novelistic bits. in the novel of the former variation, then the testaments be trade was an essay of the variations are a series of variations. the same is true of that later that ends with the extraordinary reflection that is similar. is the history of music. a wonderful idea. but to in other words, to say that is the novelistic essay ashley novel that is exactly what you get with the supremely great book from another writer you and i with a book about john updike. and the novelistic essay is what you get thrown out the works of the really great polish writer a
is not just me twisting shakespeare to suit my purposes in a marginal comment of a soliloquy herman melville wrote here is forcibly shown have led. to cv essayistic qualities. to revert, i don't know about you but while i still enjoy the essayistic part of the of miracle like this i was becoming increasingly impatient with the novelistic parts which unfairly i remember a benny hill with doctors and chasing after nurses so i was glad to get those be trade and s.a. of seven parts that they gave...
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herman melville conceded as well. the montagne-ism of kundera, i don't know about you, but i found that if i read it, while i still enjoy the essay part, i was becoming increasingly impatient with the novelistic part, which unfairly, i always remember as this of doctors chasing after doctors. it is an essay in seven parts. it talks about all the stuff that i wanted from the essays about the kind of novelistic pitch. it is the book of laughter and forgetting. it was a novel in the form of variations. testaments betrayed was a series of variations in the form of the essay. the same is true of the later nonfiction book of his, the curtain, which ends with an extraordinary reflection. it is rather similar to the one advanced by steiner. wonderful idea there. we have in both of these books, in other words is something that i have been increasingly fond of, that is to say that it is the novelistic essay minus the novel. and that, of course, is exactly what you get in this supremely great book. the idea of the essayist at es
herman melville conceded as well. the montagne-ism of kundera, i don't know about you, but i found that if i read it, while i still enjoy the essay part, i was becoming increasingly impatient with the novelistic part, which unfairly, i always remember as this of doctors chasing after doctors. it is an essay in seven parts. it talks about all the stuff that i wanted from the essays about the kind of novelistic pitch. it is the book of laughter and forgetting. it was a novel in the form of...
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or in the longer chapters where i said to myself, let's imagine i can tell the life of herman melville, but i don't have to really do any research or know anything. i can go anywhere. i can actually save what he was thinking when he meets the handsome young sailor. you know, for me it is that imaginative freedom was seeking. and so even in my straight biography said try to really imagine the life. what did it smell like, feel like to be in that life? have really done original research except for my new biography of jesus while i interviewed everybody. [laughter] that was a lot of fun. mark was a real bitch. matthew i could sort of take. lucas week. john was really crazy. >> we will was pilot light? >> pilot, oh god. it was the dress i could not take. i also think going back to the original topic, of our free to mention interesting how the genre's cross. years ago sitting with two friends of mine we read some seminar and austria having lunch , so what are you working on now, my dear. she said, oh, i'm writing my memoirs. he said, at last you're turning your hand to fiction. [laughter] i
or in the longer chapters where i said to myself, let's imagine i can tell the life of herman melville, but i don't have to really do any research or know anything. i can go anywhere. i can actually save what he was thinking when he meets the handsome young sailor. you know, for me it is that imaginative freedom was seeking. and so even in my straight biography said try to really imagine the life. what did it smell like, feel like to be in that life? have really done original research except...
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the one who i made an astronaut twice, mike melville, the balding one there, is two to three years older than he's allowed to fly an airliner. but he's a very good pilot. the white knights is a special launch airplane for the x-15 they used a b-15. we had the build our own b-52. what i did here was i put every system, except for the rocket propulsion, every system of the spaceship i put in the white knight so we could test it up at 50,000 feet and test it repeatedly. it's avionics that will take the spaceship to space. its environmental control system, its cabin with its dual windows, that's a spaceship cabin. qualified to go into space. every component in spaceshipone that had any issues about its maturity is in that airplane. spaceshipone is a very simple glider with a very throaty engine that runs for a minute. it folds itself in half when it's supersonic for re-entry and the reason it does is because mike adams got killed when i was working with edwards in the f-15 during re-entry. he didn't have the pitch accurate within about that much range and he didn't have the yaw accurate with
the one who i made an astronaut twice, mike melville, the balding one there, is two to three years older than he's allowed to fly an airliner. but he's a very good pilot. the white knights is a special launch airplane for the x-15 they used a b-15. we had the build our own b-52. what i did here was i put every system, except for the rocket propulsion, every system of the spaceship i put in the white knight so we could test it up at 50,000 feet and test it repeatedly. it's avionics that will...